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28 Jan 2011
 
 
Correctly reading the signs of the times
GOVERNMENT & RESEARCH
Anxiety about the State increasingly extending its reach into the economy is only natural, particularly where such reach could edge out private ingenuity and replace it with public mediocrity....
 
 
14 Jan 2011
 
Bric becomes Brics, but will this be good for South Africa?
Real Economy: International Relations
Late last month, it was announced that South Africa had been invited to join the BRIC grouping of Brazil, Russia, India and China. On December 23, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi telephoned...
 
 
03 Dec 2010
 
SA gets set for big debate on immigration
REAL ECONOMY: MIGRATION POLICY
Migration and migration policies are emotive topics the world over. Be it economic boycotts against the state of Arizona for passing tough immigration enforcement laws, or promises by Britain’s...
 
 
26 Nov 2010
 
SA’s politically biased Africa agenda in urgent need of revision
REAL ECONOMY: ECONOMIC RELATIONS
It’s ironic, but business’ grasp of the importance of the rest of Africa to South Africa’s growth fortunes seems to be firmer under the Presidency of the relatively parochial Jacob Zuma than...
 
 
05 Nov 2010
 
Gordhan keeps inflow-tax power dry
REAL ECONOMY: ECONOMIC POLICY
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan used the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS), released last Wednesday, to outline some of the fiscal and monetary measures that will be deployed by the South...
 
 
22 Oct 2010
 
Electricity plan clings to pragmatism over aspiration
REAL ECONOMY: ELECTRICITY PLAN
The draft second integrated resource plan, or IRP2010, is unlikely to receive universal acclaim and even its drafters will acknowledge that errs far more on the side of pragmatism than on...
 
 
08 Oct 2010
 
Generation plan in itself inadequate to galvanise power investments
REAL ECONOMY: ENERGY POLICY
Much attention is being given to the second version of the integrated resources plan, or IRP 2010, which government still insists will be promulgated during November, despite delays to the public...
 
 
01 Oct 2010
 
Yen developments may hold lessons as SA considers rand action
REAL ECONOMY: CURRENCY INTERVENTION
It will be interesting for advocates and opponents of calls for aggressive intervention to weaken the rand to monitor developments surrounding the Japanese yen over the coming weeks and months....
 
 
 
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